Application of eye-tracking experiment on electromechanical product design

SHI Hao-tian1, ZHANG Yi-ming1, LIU He-shan1, ZHOU Jun1, CHI Feng2, LIU Wei1

(1.School of Mechanical Engineering Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China;

2. Shandong Linyi Engineering Machinery Stock Co., Ltd, Linyi 276023, China)

Abstract: In order to analyze the problems of the users′ attention to the external appearance and internal decoration design of the electromechanical product quantificationally, the loader was used as the case to illustrate the application of eye-tracking theory on the external appearance and internal decoration design of the electromechanical product. Based on the introduction of eye-tracking theory and its application, an eye-tracking experiment was performed on the professional practitioners and non-professional practitioners. The external appearance and internal decoration design of the loader were evaluated and analyzed quantificationally on the eye-tracking documents and data processing, and the conclusions of the components′ attention distribution and the improvement of the design were obtained .The experimental results show that the eye-tracking experiment is an effective tool in the electromechanical product design.

Key words: eye-tracking experiment; electromechanical product; loader; external appearance design; internal decoration design